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Investigation antitrust of the EU commission on various shipowning companies that operate in the line field
According to Brussels, the commercial communications are used in order to inquire alternatively on the evolution of the hires
November 22, 2013
The EU commission has announced today the start of a formal procedure of investigation in order to verify if various shipowning companies that operate in the field of the containerized marine transport have participated to practical agreed in violation of the norms of the EU on the competition.
The decision to begin the investigation is gushed from the modalities with which such companies they diffuse own commercials, those in particular relative ones to tariff variations (General Rate Increase, etc). "From 2009 - it has explained the EU commission - these companies announce their intention regularly to increase the rates through press releases on their websites and on it prints economic specialized. These announcements publics are diffuse many times over per year and announce the amount of the increase and the date of its effectiveness, than usually it is same for all the companies. In general terms - Brussels has remembered - the companies diffuse announcements in succession little weeks before the date of previewed effectiveness. The Commission is worried that this practical one allows with the companies to inquire alternatively about their intentions with regard to the future rates and that is lesiva of the competition and the customers determining an increase of the rates on the market of the services of line for the marine transport of the container on the routes from and for Europe. The Commission now intends to examine if such fact constitutes a practical one agreed in violation of article 101 of the treaty on the operation of European Union (TFUE) and article 53 of the agreement on European Economic Spazio".
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